Rumor: New Smash Bros Character Announcement Xenoblade Related

Earlier today it was revealed that a new character would be announced for the upcoming Super Smash Bros for 3DS and Super Smash Bros for Wii U, this coming Monday. A rumor has emerged stating that Xenoblade\’s director Tetsuya Takahashi has retweeted the announcement, teasing that this reveal may have something to do with the Xenoblade series.

Apparently the new character reveal on Monday is most likely to be Shulk from Xenoblade? Xenoblade\’s director RT\’d the Smash Bros news tweet

Over the past two years, a pattern has emerged regarding Nintendo announcements, generally if there was any Monolith Soft involvement, Tetsuya Takahasi\’s wife would retweet the announcement as a tease of her husbands work\’s inclusion. A Xenoblade character featuring in Super Smash Bros is at the top of many fan\’s most wanted announcements so Nintendo would please a lot of people if this came true. The Super Smash Bros game is currently in development at Namco Bandai Studios in collaboration with Project Sora, lead by Super Smash Bros creator Masahiro Sakurai. The 3DS version of the game, marking the series first portable entry, will see release this October 3rd worldwide. The Wii U version is intended to follow in either November or December and will mark the launch of Nintendo\’s own NFC-figurine platform known as Amiibo.

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Kroisos Any studio that was not actually founded by Nintendo, and the games thereof (Monolith, HAL, Rare, Retro, Game Freak etc.) are by default not Ninteno intellectual properties. Nintendo only earns a share of their profits and/or owns them through contracts. Nintendo can't be credited for games that they only published, but were actually the idea's and creations of another studio any more than Disney can be credited with the creations of Marvel or Lucas Film by simply owning them.

It just makes sense. Xenoblade was one of the best games of the last generation, X has clearly been a central component of the Wii U's upcoming line-up for quite some time, and for as much as they are calling it a spiritual sequel rather than directly related, the earliest trailers featured a character who looked suspiciously like Shulk (and later trailers had Nopon, which suggests the same general universe and limits to how spiritual it might be). Xenoblade is now one of Nintendo's key franchises, so inclusion in Smash is warranted.

It just makes sense. Xenoblade was one of the best games of the last generation, X has clearly been a central component of the Wii U's upcoming line-up for quite some time, and for as much as they are calling it a spiritual sequel rather than directly related, the earliest trailers featured a character who looked suspiciously like Shulk (and later trailers had Nopon, which suggests the same general universe and limits to how spiritual it might be). Xenoblade is now one of Nintendo's key franchises, so inclusion in Smash is warranted.

@KroisosAny studio that was not actually founded by Nintendo, and the games thereof (Monolith, HAL, Rare, Retro, Game Freak etc.) are by default not Ninteno intellectual properties. Nintendo only earns a share of their profits and/or owns them through contracts. Nintendo can't be credited for games that they only published, but were actually the idea's and creations of another studio any more than Disney can be credited with the creations of Marvel or Lucas Film by simply owning them.